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At random: Probably the most expensive ballast ever carried by a ship was two tons of gold and eighteen tons of silver coins carried by the U.S. submarine TROUT while on a trip from Corregidor to Pearl Harbor early in World War II. TROUT had removed her moveable ballast to allow for a larger cargo of ammunition to be transported for the defenders on the embattled island. Lcdr. Fenno, TROUT's CO, planned on replacing the ballast with sand bags, but found none were available. The gold and silver from the Bank of the Philippines was substituted as ballast, which also solved the problem of removing the treasure to a safe place prior to invasion by the enemy.

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Corabelle

Posted 2008-05-03 11:29 AM (#15566)

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What do these letters mean if someone puts them on the back flap of a letter when it's sealed?

This was not to a sweetheart; it was a letter to parents and sisters.

Cora

JrKrup, Skimmer

Posted 2008-05-03 1:59 PM (#15571 - in reply to #15566)

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Soldier's
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Rush
Like
Hell

Corabelle

Posted 2008-05-03 4:03 PM (#15577 - in reply to #15571)

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Thanks, Jon -

But in my brother's case it would have been, "Sailor's mail, rush like hell."

Cora

Roy Ator

Posted 2008-05-03 6:32 PM (#15578 - in reply to #15577)

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How about, "Submariner's Mail, Rush Like Hell!"?

Corabelle

Posted 2008-05-03 7:43 PM (#15579 - in reply to #15578)

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Thanks, I really like that, Roy - but - he was still in Radio School when he put that on an envelope on April 16, 1943. He told us in another letter on July 2, 1943 that he had been given a chance to volunteer for submarine duty. Maybe he was thinking of it in April, and knew we would all object to him being on a submarine. In the July letter, he told us that Captain Edward Beach spoke to the Radio School students, "about life aboard a sub."

Cora

Roy Ator

Posted 2008-05-03 8:30 PM (#15580 - in reply to #15579)

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I dont know what the letters stand for. I find it interesting that "Captain Edward Beach spoke to the Radio School students".

At a TIRANTE reunion in Sierra Vista, AZ in 2000, I heard Captain Edward Beach (Ret) speak to Navy students in the Navy Intelligence [spook] school there at Fort Wauchuca (sp). He was a great educator! He was attempting to motivate and improve moral of the trainees being forced to learn the Morse Code that was no longer in use by the USN. The emphasis was on the applicability to their chosen career field where they would be monitoring third world countries that were still using the Morse Code.This was a large mixed gender group, mostly Seaman Apprentice (E-2). Damn, that put a strain on my CRS...

Edited by Roy Ator 2008-05-03 8:33 PM

Corabelle

Posted 2008-05-03 10:15 PM (#15582 - in reply to #15580)

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Subject: Roy - If you look up Dakota Slim's post on How I got Into Submarines,

he talks about Commander Beach, and his influence on his (Elmer's) decision to go into submarines.

Cora

Edited by Corabelle 2008-05-04 9:48 AM

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